Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > >> Manu Abraham wrote: >> >>> I have been working on the Twinhan and Twinhan clone card drivers, i >>> mean both FTA and CI based ones.. >>> >>> >>> The FTA cards do look like most standard cards, whereas the CI based >>> cards are a bit different from others.. >>> >>> The reason why the CI based cards do differ from the others is that >>> there is no Transport Layer visible to the driver, but does exists in >>> some form in the Firmware, and nothing can be done about it .. >>> >>> So here i am at a point, ready to write a layer/library that would >>> make it more adaptable to DVB applications.. >> >> >> >> Since you Cc'd Klaus: VDR already contains a CI library, and I guess >> he's not eager to include another one. It would be nice if you >> could point out to him what needs to be changed in VDR to support >> Twinhan-style CI, or maybe even send him a patch. But you >> better sort that out on the vdr mailing list. >> >> Johannes > > > I wouldn't like to implement a special method of CI handling just That would mean i have to make my own hardware ? Damn.. > for one particular hardware. You should make the interface behave It is not one single hardware, but it is an entire family of cards.. > just like the existing one - then you can use VDR right out of the box. > It is not a special method, but only thing is that everything is in Application layer, rather than Transport layer. I was not looking at using it straight out of the box.. Anyway, thanks for replying.. Manu
